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flow, run or fall out and become lost
The wine spilled onto the table
The milk spilled across the floor -
use up all one's strength and energy and stop working
At the end of the march, I pooped out -
become used up; be exhausted
Our supplies finally ran out -
flow off gradually
The rain water drains into this big vat -
leave suddenly and as if in a hurry
The listeners bolted when he discussed his strange ideas
When she started to tell silly stories, I ran out -
prove insufficient
The water supply for the town failed after a long drought -
exhaust the supply of
We ran out of time just as the discussion was getting interesting -
lose validity
My passports expired last month
How To Use run out In A Sentence
- My constant fear is that we're going to run out of writers in Chicago, " said Mr. Griffith, 27, who in his spare time is a theater critic for The Chicago Reader, an alternative paper.
- They were too cool to play an encore, or perhaps they had simply run out of songs. Times, Sunday Times
- They run out of beer by about 7pm so we then turned to the wine, which I'm afraid would have stripped the paint off any wall.
- I could continue this yo-yo description of euroland affairs were it not that I will run out of good news to juxtapose against the bad. Euroland Should Prepare for More Ups and Downs in Its Yo-Yo Economy
- Or you could look into hydrogen because even though natural gas is in ample amounts … it will run out. Think Progress » Deficit Peacock Evan Bayh Hits ‘Far Left-Wing Blogs’ For Criticizing Obama’s Spending Freeze As Too ‘Austere’
- Can't wait to see Ryan score the title clincher v Stoke in front of the Stretford End the week before he flies of to Madrid for the final. this is a big big game so I don't think he should start straight from injury, off the bench maybe .... you know give him a run out when we're 4-0 up: p Manchester Evening News - RSS Feed
- And the future, the value of residential, the developer of housing in the green again, we run out laugh uproariously .
- Kristen would run out to get a blood test while I watched an online tutorial; she would pop Clomid while I conjured up the courage to give myself a shot. Times Two
- Labour has not run out of radical steam, he says. Times, Sunday Times
- In fact, it is easy to run out of superlatives for a gig as good as this and I defy anyone to emerge disappointed by what they have seen and heard - these guys are in danger of setting themselves some impossibly high standards.
